Re: [gentoo-user] terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:37:46 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding
> terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives.
> 
> I just saw on the mythtv list about the sector size problem these drives
> have where they have poor performance unless you can map the partitions
> onto certain sector boundaries.
> 
> My problem is that LVM2 is not supported in parted which is the
> recommended tool to deal with this.
> 
use google. fdisk is fine.